Full Coverage: ICT

29.07.2005 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Italian government on Thursday signed an agreement in Maputo, that establishes mechanisms of multilateral financing for a project to develop Mozambican human resources in the sphere of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

29.07.2005 Evenothough the Union territiory of Punjab is making tremendous progress in the field of information and technolgy, the disparity between the urban and rural areas still continues to be starking.

29.07.2005 People in Ludhiana will now be able to pay their central excise returns or service tax through the system of e-payment,said the Chief Commissioner Central Excise Commissionerate V.K. Garg, at a press conference.

29.07.2005 India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore, has been chosen as the India headquarters for the United Nations “Global e-school and Communities Initiative” (Gesci), a special campaign to promote the use of technology in education.

28.07.2005 President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed of Bangladesh has urged the people put in more efforts to create IT-knowledge based human resources and promote the prospective IT sector.

28.07.2005 Mpumalanga communities in and around the farming town of Standerton, Africa will for the first time have access to cyber facilities at their doorstep.

28.07.2005 As part of its initiative to ensure that benefits of Information Technology and computer education percolate down to the grassroots, the Delhi Government is all set to launch a Computer Aided Learning (CAL) project in association with Ernst and Young (E&Y), in 200 government-run schools.

28.07.2005 After Bangalore and Hyderabad in South and Gurgaon in North, Union Territory of Chandigarh is heading towards becoming a major Information Technology hub.

28.07.2005 According to a study by the University of Zaragoza in Spain, 6 out of the top 10 European cities for e-governance come from the United Kingdom.

28.07.2005 The reports of the four conferences that UNESCO organized from February to May 2005 as “thematic meetings” for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which will hold its second session in Tunis, Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005, are now available online.

28.07.2005 The WSIS Gender Caucus is organising an email-based discussion forum on identifying and integrating gender perspectives into the WSIS deliberations at PrepCom3 in September and the Tunis Summit in November.

28.07.2005 Preparing teachers to judiciously use technologies for teaching and learning is the aim of the Next Generation of Teachers (NET) Project, which is designed to assist teacher education institutions in the Asia-Pacific region.

28.07.2005 The World Summit Award (WSA) recognises and celebrates the spirit of content creation and creativity using digital media globally. Launched in conjunction with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the Award is being given annually to the best e-content and expression of creativity that helps bridging the digital divide.

26.07.2005 Ce que proposent les journées Alternatives 2005 : Créer des espaces pour débattre des luttes et des solidarités qui nous animent, en démontrant comment chacune de ces batailles, aussi locale soit-elle, s’inscrit dans une résistance globale pour le bien commun. Parce qu’en renforçant notre mouvement social ici, en préparant nos batailles et en consolidant nos solidarités au Québec et au Canada, c’est à un mouvement global que nous contribuons.

26.07.2005 President John Agyekum Kufuor on Monday urged African nations to agree on common Information Communication Technology (ICT) implementation strategies in Education, which must reflect on various core issues like education, development of sub-regional policy guidelines for effective partnership mechanism for cost-sharing, human resource development and optimisation of existing capacity in all areas of ICT use in education, an environment to reduce connectivity costs and supply of adequate band-with.

26.07.2005 Distance education can provide a richer and more engaging educational experience than is possible within the confines of the classroom.

26.07.2005 This report examines educational possibilities arising from the Internet, which strive to bring together the school, the home and the wider

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26.07.2005 This article describes a number of research projects that seek to support Girls Inc, an initiative that explores the changing needs of girls through research-based programmes and public education efforts that empower girls to understand, value, and assert their rights.

26.07.2005 Retired Professor Parker Rossman is exploring online in a draft textbook, free to the world, how to use the Internet to provide learning for all.